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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey Jan 1969

Trade Association Offering Legal Services - A Possibility For Small Corporations, Robert R. Hussey

Cleveland State Law Review

Small corporations generally belong to a trade association which allows them to increase their proficiency in and knowledge of their industry. As a possible solution to the problem of increasing legal service requirements this paper investigates the suitability of allowing these trade associations to provide legal services to member corporations.


Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green Jan 1969

Labor Union Group Legal Service For Members, Eugene Green

Cleveland State Law Review

The right of associations to provide their members with legal services appears to be as broad as the freedom of assembly and discussion protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. These freedoms "are not confined to any field of human interest" and are of the same dimension in matters of local or national interest.


Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell Jan 1969

Group Law Services In Patent Law, G. Franklin Rothwell

Cleveland State Law Review

If group legal services are to pervade the field of patent law, and in view of the UMW case and the activities of the unregistered patent practitioners, that I suspect is imminent, the most stringent safeguards should be specifically set forth, including the following: specific approvaland regulation by the Patent Office of the group, its modus operandi,and the patent practitioners participation; and stringent restrictions by the Patent Office of the groups' advertising and promotional activities, both written and outside the group. The Patent Office now has statutory authority to regulate registered practitioners, and some regulation could be accomplished in this …